Pols: Few on LI want to move under Cuomo buyout plan
Photo credit: Randee Daddona | Floodwaters run through Cutchogue late last year after superstorm Sandy. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing that owners with homes damaged during superstorm Sandy or those in the flood zones be offered buyouts and the land preserved as a coast. (Oct. 29, 2012)
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Long Island lawmakers said Monday a Cuomo administration proposal to offer to buy homes ruined by superstorm Sandy, relocate homeowners and leave the parcels to Mother Nature would attract little interest in Nassau and Suffolk counties.
The overwhelming number of Island residents would rather rebuild than relocate, they said.
"In all honesty, nobody has brought it up. At all," said Senate...
